As long as we are on HN, might as well as cite PG on what a startup is: http://paulgraham.com/growth.html http://paulgraham.com/growth.html >A startup is a com

As long as we are on HN, might as well as cite PG on what a startup is: http://paulgraham.com/growth.html http://paulgraham.com/growth.html >A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessary for a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding, or have some sort of "exit." The only essential thing is growth. Everything else we associate with startups follows from growth.